Japan, Korea , and China have larger class sizes in their schools and they near everytime beat the stuffing out of US kids test scorewise. The argument that US kids can't learn in classes larger than 20 students seems like a pile of warm BS, don't it?
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Education is not all about test scores. There's a million things in education, artistic, musical, oratory skills, and life skills, that can't be measured in a test.
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Not necessarily. They could be doing better for a different reason altogether.
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A lot of US kids are privileged, spoiled, pretentious and don't take school as seriously. So yeah, it is bs.
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It is a huge pile of steaming BS. The classes I had growing up were many times much greater than 20 kids. And I'm a f*cking nuclear engineer now, fer cryin' out loud. And I wasn't the top of my classes by a long shot.
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its not the class size ..its what is being taught, they have gone away from the basic 3R's ... without them then the rest of the so called education is a waste. Don't believe me ...just look at how many can't spell, can't do simple maths , can't read and more often than not their writing makes doctors scrible look like prize winning hand writiing. They need to get back to the same education I had when I was a kid and yes that was 50 years ago! but I can tell you now the kids were a hell of a lot smarter than they are now
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I think that smaller calls sizes THEORETICALLY give the teacher the opportunity to give more attention to students who are having problems. . Whether or not this happens, I think, as more to do with the teachers attitude and dedication,. . Class sizes were much larger when I was in school. Some teachers found the time for kids that needed a personal touch. Others gave a one size fits all presentation and, seemingly, could not have cared less about students the caned approach did not work for. . Some were encouraging for those who needed it, others disparaging. . I think parents also have to take a great deal of the credit or blame. . I have heard that parents in Japan and China have and transmit to their kids high expectations t their kids and provide support and recognition. . These factors, I suspect, have a much higher impact on scholastic achievment than just class size per se.
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